Sean Beldon: Expansive Skies and the Final Barn Paintings
Sean Beldon presents a collection of new paintings, released through the gallery ahead of a busy exhibition schedule later in the year. As Sean now turns his attention to preparing works specifically for upcoming exhibitions, these paintings represent the only new works currently available to collectors for the next few months.
Good Morning, Otago 2026These landscapes are not simply about place, but about the shifting memory of it. Through layered brushwork and distinctive mark-making, he captures light, weather, and the subtle tension that sits between calm and movement.
The Thunderstorm Just Before Christmas (Lindis Pass) 2026
Two of the works are expansive landscapes that further develop Beldon’s distinctive mark-making and atmospheric treatment of light. In these paintings, cloud formations stretch across wide horizons, building layers of movement and energy within the sky. The works carry a sense of scale and openness, where light shifts across the landscape and the surface of the painting reveals the artist’s evolving approach to gesture and rhythm.
The Red Woolshed Near Martinborough 2025/2026
Alongside these landscapes are two works from Beldon’s well-known Barn Series. These paintings bring a close to a body of work that has been central to his practice. These works have become defining pieces for many collectors, quietly anchoring spaces with their sense of solitude, structure, and place. With these final two paintings, the series reaches its natural conclusion.
Completing the group is a new work from Beldon’s sought-after New Zealand mountain series, depicting the iconic Mt Taranaki. In this painting the distinctive silhouette of the mountain emerges through layers of atmospheric cloud, continuing the artist’s exploration of landscape as both place and experience.
Together these five works reflect both continuity and development within Beldon’s practice, the closing of one series alongside a continued expansion of his landscape painting.
